Opening song: The walking dead of Dropkick Murphys. I had some difficulties, so I had to throw it off and replace it. Sorry lads.

Short pre chapter. I got this already done, but my chapter got too big, so I decided to split it up. This is a shorter chapter. I'm fed up with waiting. Got finally over my writers block, so I decided to give you guys a new chapter.

Please review this. 22/10, you guys get the rest.

The next day after the abduction, things were a lot quieter at the academy. The persons who were present at the statement Kerlongsj to shut down the IS were sworn to secrecy. It became peaceful at the academy after that.

Lessons went on, just like training. By a lot of questions, Kerlongsj changed the subject battle simulation to survival. That was more practical to learn and less bloody. The girls and guys were very glad for that. In his free hours, he started to teach the other classes.

The hackers from Jozalof's gang wanted to pass to the third year. Thanks to the high scores, which was a riddle, for even Kerlongsj, they couldn't learn anything more. Still, the teachers doubted if it would work out well. In the end, Tatenashi came with a proposition. If they could defeat them, she would allow them to skip the year.

She learnt the hard way that these guys earned their place as rank 10. Unlike Anaton's Free Style in fighting and Cirluk's Brutal Tactic, these guys were trained in the old way of fighting. They won, but only after a few hours.

Despite the rivalry between Ichika's self-proclaimed harem and Anaton's gang and things began to spark a lot more, romance began softly to bloom. Quite some seniors hanged out with Jozalof's gang, because they were the oldest one of the hackers.

But it was really in the first year that the girls and guys threw away their boundaries and were couples were formed. Chifuyu and Kerlongsj decided to take some premeasures. The hackers did the same thing what Kerlongsj told them. They played it fair and open by telling the girls that they had absolutely no experience regarding romance.

By doing so, the girls did the same and you can say they learnt from each other, but to prevent that things would happen, the first years were sent back to Flanders.

Ichika and Anaton became best friends and often hung around with each other. Ichika's training also began to pay off. He held his own against the seven guys. Needlessly to say, he lost that fight, but it took three hours to take them down.

Ichika's friends except for Tatenashi, joined the trainings as well. They finally understood that the guys had no problem training them. They acknowledged the pilots as counterparts. It helped that the guys made a bet. Could one of the girls defeat one of the guys, they got a date with Ichika. If more girls won, they got a ticket for next time.

It also closed the distance between the two groups. Not that you could call them, friends, more like rivals with respect for each other's strength.

Cirluk was the one who stood out. He didn't had any experience talking to girls and mostly shunned the girls. Not that he didn't like the attention, but they didn't appeal to him. He was most of the time flustered and reacted in a wrong way. Unlike his pack members or Jozalof, the girls didn't give him a spark.

Tatenashi was the only one who stood out between the truces the pilots and runners had. She was extremely pissed that Kerlongsj gave Ichika training and her training was less efficient than Anaton's. Ichika also talked back to her and at one point, while she teased him, he got enough, he floored her with a knife he got from Kerlongsj on her throat. He stood up for himself.

Except for Tatenashi, the rest of the girls took peace with that. She was also annoyed that the runners didn't listen to her.

She caused a fight with Cirluk eventually who responded in kind. There was quite some destruction and both Tatenashi as Cirluk received quite some punishment for using their powers. They had to restore the damage they caused. Cirluk had a four day run, meaning that he wasn't allowed to sleep for four days, but still had to attend training and lessons and Tatenashi's authority was hold back for two weeks. Some pilots really began to question that authority.

Kerlongsj decided to talk to her. Hackers were normally quite forgiving and they acknowledged power. If she just accepted that truth, the guys would leave her alone or even accept her to train. That was their policy. "Make allies. That's hard enough. Making enemies is easy"

But nobody could foresee what would happen after a few weeks.

After a long Friday of teaching, the guys were playing soccer after their homework and training. It wasn't their time to train Ichika so they enjoyed the first day of the weekend. It was just a simple, friendly match like you'd found in every school. (Soccer is very popular in Western Europe, more than baseball or football. So it's more logical I place that as a game.)

The guys played, scored, laughed and went on.

Izolf got the ball and played to Kashal. "Bull's eye." Kashal shouted as he scored passed Tizof. The guys were laughing and grinning. Anaton said at the end. "3-0" for team Izolf." He didn't play along. Erzof, Tizof and Raton were cursing.

"You know what lads?" Izolf asked. "What?"
"Well, if you think of all we went through and now, we're playing soccer like a group of children. It's weird."

"Don't think too much." Tizof said. "Let's play on." Erzof looked to the sky. "I don't think so lads." He looked at the sky. "The sun is setting. It will be dark very soon. Unlike in our place, it won't last an hour." He said. "Ah, shite." Thazalof responded. "Let's get back to the dorms." They all agreed and grabbed their sweaters.

Before they could go on, they saw a few girls walking towards them. It wasn't weird. They were in the ISA after all. Girls were everywhere. But it was strange, these girls didn't wear a uniform and they were some years older. Around Chifuyu's age they guessed.

But that wasn't the problem. The guys felt the same feeling in their gut. "Be on your guard." Every muscle, every brain cell, everything of their instinct told them to watch out for them. They looked at each other and by telepathy or just by living with each other, they understood it.

There were three girls, but the guys went to stand in their positions. Tizof stood before Anaton, his brother behind the young boy. Izolf and Kashal right and left from them. Erzof and Raton joined them. "Can we help with something?" Tizof was the first one to ask and to speak.

One of the women removed their coat that covered her head. They all had the gulp and Tizof even got a blush. She was beautiful. Her long blond hair was stunning, but her cold blue eyes spoiled that. Her face would be the most perfect thing the guys saw if it wasn't covered with an evil smirk.

"Yes. Could you be so kind to die?" She asked at a calm tone. She attacked the boy without a warning with a sword. She was faster than he would suspect, but one centimetre before the sword would cut his head, she felt a fist swinging at her face.

Kashal was a bit faster and she was punched back. "Great job, bitch. Couldn't you know that those guys were fighters in a group?" One of her companions said when she was thrown back in the group. "Hey, you should take care of one as well, idiot."

It was a completely different way how Tizof reacted. "Thanks lad. I own you big time." Kashal still stood in front of his friend. "No problem."

"Let's kick their arses." Izolf proposed when he activated his hooks. Erzof nodded. "Yeah. We're going to rock." He made his canon and aimed at the girls. "Anaton. Orders." Tizof asked. "Two on one. Defensive. Begin." The close range fighters ran towards the girls, covered by the heavy fire power.

Tizof focused on the blond haired girl that wanted to kill him. He had his two swords ready and despite his swords were smaller, he had the advantage by having two. He blocked her large sword with his left hand and went with his right to her throat. He didn't notice that the girl kicked her foot, making him fall. "Shite." He shouted.

He broke the attack off and tried to get his balance back. Unfortunately, the girl took her sword and swung it at him. She aimed at his feet. He could get up, but the girl focused on that and pushed him down. He fell on his back. "Fuck." He said.

The girls blue eyes had a psychotic look and he looked up. "You filthy. Die." Before she could push the sword down, an arrow hit her shoulder and she backed off. "What?" The arrow hit target and a huge electric wave came over her. Tizof gave her a kick for giving him some distance and got up. He didn't hesitate and pushed his swords at her stomach.

The blond haired pilot was too busy trying to get the arrow of her shoulder to notice. Tizof let the gun mechanisms work and unlike the match with Houki who got a light kick off, he literally blew her off his swords with a huge bang. She flew back and landed at a three. He looked back and saw his brother standing who shot a few arrows passed him aimed at the girl.

The arrows were meant for her clothing so she couldn't run away. He looked to his brother. He gave a salute to his brother who fired a few more arrows. "Are you sick Tizof?" He shouted. "It's the second time someone saved you in a ten minute span. Did that training with Houki made you weak?" He asked. "No, it's just that the woman is so good. She's near Kerlongsj's level" He said while the woman appeared behind him. He looked back. "You lowlife." She shouted.

She had an IS now. It was a weird one. It had a few matches with an Uchigane model and Houki's Akatsubaki. It had a pink colour and the sword was flaming. It wasn't a katana, but more Western styled. It had a weird form. It didn't have one smooth line, but different forms and openings.

It was a good thing for the young swordsman that Anaton shield was active. "Tizof. Make yourself ready. She gets through that." Anaton shouted. Tizof nodded, because just a second the shield was up, it was broken down. The pilot got after him, raising her sword, but it was held down by Tizof.

The pilot was shocked that someone could stop her swords. Tizof himself was shocked. True, he had a lot of training, but he was facing an adult woman and she was obviously a trained pilot. He struggled to keep the sword down. She was a lot better.

He smiled at his opponent. It wasn't a sadistic one, but a victorious one. She looked up and saw Thazalof aiming at her face and he released the arrow. She couldn't get way, because Tizof blocked every movement. It hit her face completely. Tizof felt how the strength of the sword faded. He didn't hesitate and in a split second, he cut her IS open starting by the shoulders. He completely went through her.

In the meantime the two other groups were also busy.

Izolf opponent activated her IS at the beginning of the fight. The blue haired pilot had a model like Laura, but heavily modified. He evaded the rockets fired at him and he looked up. He launched his hooks and used his mechanism to pull the pilot towards him. It didn't work out the way he hoped, because she raised the arm he aimed at and flew in the air. She aimed her guns at him and only by swinging, he could avoid the heavy fire.

Erzof foresaw that and fired at her. She saw the explosive flying towards. It gave a huge impact, but it caused Izolf to get a shock. He was trained in that and it was tactic that worked a lot, but he couldn't help to shout. "Dammit, Erzof. Kill her, not me."

The giant grinned, but that disappeared as the dusk got away. The pilot had set up a shield. The two were reminded that those shields were one for the basic things to understand. "Well, I underestimated you guys." She said. "Shit." Was Izolf's response. He looked to his brother and gave him a nod.

Erzof smirked as he changed the ammunition of Monster. He changed it to quick firing rockets. He aimed at her and fired. It was faster, more accurate than Tabane's IS and more deadly.

The pilot flew through the rockets following her for a change. Izolf waited when he could struck on her. He released his hooks and backed down.

While the pilot was focused on the heavy fire, Izolf appeared in front of her and he used his hooks to get on her face. She couldn't react, because he was trained to be faster than the automatic protection.

He used his right hook to get across her face and his left hold her neck in a grip. "Erzof." He shouted. His friend reacted, he looked and fired. A huge wave swept the pilot away. All the missiles got at her and avoided Izolf. She would have flew away if Izolf didn't get a hold on her and threw her back to his friend.

He saw her flying back and waited. Despite he had a canon on his back, he floored her with his two hands. The canon became more precise. The pilot opened her green eyes and she saw how he aimed at her face. "Got ya."

Kashal on the other hand had a lot more problems. He saw how the pilot fired at him. Normal pilots or hackers wouldn't get close to her, but luckily for him, he was used to this. He grinned as he activated a skateboard and flew to her.

Despite the firing continued, he evaded it. Kashal had two tasks. Distract her so Raton could fire and damage her. That was easier said than done, but he saw something. The pilot had to reload the guns, so that gave him an opening. He moved towards her and got close. He jumped up, just out of the pilot's calculations and the red haired pilot felt a punch on her.

Kashal was only shocked that he found his fists blocked by her short blade. Not that he would get wounded, but he knew that he was at a disadvantage for not using weapons. Normally, claws would be enough, but he didn't even had those. He gave up weapons for efficiency and being faster, but now he lost that advantage. Now, he had to think of something else.

The pilot aimed with her other hand at his face, but before she could even aim, Raton shot. He had his gift from Erzof and aimed at her. "Eat this." He said. He fired at her. The pilot took a full hit and fell down.

For them, it was the least problem taking her down. He put his thumb in the air to Raton who landed next to him.

The pilots all fell down around the same time. The close range hackers got down and joined their friends on the ground. "Great. You messed up." The blue haired said to her two group members.

"Like you're one to talk." The red haired said.

"Shut the fuck up, bitches." The blond one shouted. But they soon realized in which situation they were.

They were surrounded by the hackers. They expected pilots to defend themselves, but these guys held their own. It was then they began to see the difference with them and a lot of young pilots on the ISA.

It wasn't a group of young, careless guys with a few special powers like most students who bragged about it, but a well-organized and skilled group of warriors and accomplished killers.

The pilots got briefed that these guys weren't as good as them. So how in the world could these guys defeat them? That was in no way possible.

"Okay, you still live, because we have a question." Anaton said while cracking his knuckles. Tizof still had his swords active, Raton had two small assault rifles at his arms, Erzof canon was active, Thazalof had his hands on an arrow, Izolf flunk out the hooks and Kashal caressed his fists.

"Why are you here?" Anaton said. The pilots wouldn't speak, but for the guys kicking their asses was no problem. Unfortunately, there were bigger problems coming up.

Anaton fell on the ground as the earth shook. "What in the world?"

The pilots looked at each other. Despite being damaged, they flew up and left. "Come back, you sore losers." Anaton shouted. "We'll each other soon and then you would be kissing the ground on our feet." One of the pilots said. The guys raised an eyebrow and shook their heads.

Never would they kiss the ground around the feet of a woman. They rather die.

The pilots flew away. "Well, if there are more of them, we're shitted." Erzof stated. Anaton took a breath. "Lads, you go to the academy and help where you can. Try to contact Kerlongsj. He should be inside now."

"What are you going to do?" Tizof asked to his young commander. "I'm going to get the rest of our crew. We'll need them"

The guys nodded and left with the skateboards. Tizof and Thazalof were the first one to leave, followed by their friends. They flew to the academy. They saw pilots flying to their enemies.

And that's it for now. Slight teaser I wanted to give you guys and it's also quicker to give following message.

If you got a request for me to write, you can ask in the reviews or PM's. It's interesting to write about the ideas you guys have. I'll see if I can get them in this story or I just make a one-shot for it.

It's also a way to take a break every now and then from this. If I hit a writer's block, that's really annoying with so much spare time on my hand.

One shots are okay or maybe two or four chapters. Not too long. I've done a lemon as a request, I've no problem with that, but I'm not going to switch completely to lemon. Only a few conditions.

No incest. I'm not going Ichika X Chifuyu or Ichika X Madoka.

Don't ask for anything too funky. I think you get what I mean.

Like I said, no problem with lemon, but I'll use my OC's in it. If you want an Ichika X girl or harem fic, sorry. Not going to do that. Find it somewhere else.

Something else. Lot of romance. That's just a personal thing.

Tot over 2 weken.

Kerlongsj.